{"id":67044,"date":"2025-08-14T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:09:08","slug":"large-great-white-shark-seen-swimming-near-maine-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67044\/","title":{"rendered":"Large great white shark seen swimming near Maine beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the attached drone footage taken on 8\/11\/25, at 10:00 am.<br \/>\nIt was spotted again this morning in the area off Pine Point Beach. No photo or video has been obtained today.<br \/>\nFor questions, please contact:<br \/>\nMRO Daryen Granata<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"cbafacb9aaa5aabfaa8bb8a8aab9a9a4b9a4beaca3a6aaa2a5aee5a4b9ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or 207-730-4356 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1tDPjshQne\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1tDPjshQne<\/a>\u2014 Scarborough Police (@ScarboroughMePD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScarboroughMePD\/status\/1955294069208318014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2025<\/a> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 12 (UPI) &#8212; A Maine police department issued a warning about a large shark, suspected to be a great white, seen swimming Monday and Tuesday near several public beaches.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarborough Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ScarboroughPD\/posts\/pfbid0ZtkQrUALursHPuNxmnLZGXJ7fMtiwAPJBT8HfiT5sKHjCRYQPJrtHZPTSSv5oT7wl?__cft__[0]=AZVUOjzeUuC6gOp4gQ0faAKIOaZeRy4MjjUNdAkcWdyxDV6wMIh24StymXk3_VjUMIEuetYG80TzcRH5sXA36rrjqrIlpRyWjg-3RfhQH0_umbbUcUMMezaott4mWYwshqs4fwIcuTl_aBgGdjod-CUSJUOZv3hyB_26CqOSNAPCWA&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a news release<\/a> that the city&#8217;s marine resource officer received a report Monday of a large shark seen near Richmond Island and Scarborough Beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>Further sightings were reported Tuesday near Pine Point Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The department obtained a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/drones\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Drones\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drone<\/a> camera video recorded Monday showing what appears to be a 10-12-foot shark off the southern tip of Richmond Island, near Higgins Beach and Scarborough Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The beaches remained open Tuesday, but police urged visitors to be cautious in local waters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please see the attached drone footage taken on 8\/11\/25, at 10:00 am. It was spotted again this morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,3978,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-67044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-funny","13":"tag-odd","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-weird","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}